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<blockquote data-quote="ozziedog" data-source="post: 633419" data-attributes="member: 13810"><p>So,,, plan C got hatched and it involved my new van ‘Madonna’ who is now ‘My Donor’ and th3 new plan involves popping the roof off and whizzing it over on to my van. My van is starting to look proper Frank En Stein with the amount of work gone into the roof so far and this welder is starting to get right on my tits with it’s extremely bad manners stop starting and fuse blowing. So I’m off down to machine mart to get somE bits and bobs, five thousand cutting discs in four inch a couple of hundred in five inch and I’ve already got a zillion in nine inch. Im getting some spot weld drills and I’m getting a new mig while I’m there. I’ve gone for the biggest mig you can get before you get to the euro torch set ups and the spot weld bits are like tiny spring loaded hole saws so I get a couple of them maybe four. Get back to the van and let’s get started. There are precisely several zillion spotwelds holding on the roof panel and these new spot weld bits are somewhere between not very good and useless after drilling out a couple. Yes I’m going very very slow with lots of pressure and I’m balanced on a stack of beer crates, this is gonna take forever and three weeks. As I’m gonna junk this roof panel, I’ve now decided to forget these useless spotweld drill bits and use a regular eighth pilot bit and a three eighth big bit. This is working much better but in two days over the weekend I’ve managed maybe six foot along one side and several zillion to go, then there’s getting the roof panel off of Madonna in one piece and transferring it from out in the lane to in the garage and onto my van Sherbie. This is gonna take some thinking about. In the week, I’ve gone down to get some more gas from B.O.C. as I’m down to next to nothing. Every time you go in B.O.C. It takes an age to get to the front of the queue then everything seems like a massive effort for them to actually do anything, moreso if they think you’re a D.I.Y.er . So I’m lurking about and I’m almost at the front of the queue and I strike up a conversation with some one getting some stock for a local fabrication shop and in next to no time we’re chatting about old Volkswagens and his brother has one etc etc. There’s a display stand that were queued by for DeWalt drill bits and I’m chatting about how crap some spotweld bits are. As he finishes getting served, he grabs a couple of these DeWalt Extreme drill bits and shouts to the guy serving him to put them on his account too. He tells me to get some and I won’t be sorry, then he grabs two more and shouts through to put them on his account as well and he shoves them in my jacket top pocket, we both laugh and he goes to walk off, I says thank you and shook his hand and I’ve never seen him again from that day to this, get my gas and chuck it in the car.</p><p>Game changer, on the weekend , I’m still aching from drilling and drilling and drilling from the weekend before but I’ve got a different approach now, these drill bits are a gold colour and look very similar to a masonry bit with a little stub of a bit for a pilot and they are ace . I’m now on a small scaffolding of trestles and working with these new bits and I’ve made a noose and lever. ThE noose is about a foot long and just goes over the cant rail into which I’ve put the end of my four foot lever bit of two by two, start the drill off with a spring loaded centre punch pop the drill into the punched but in the spotweld then pull the lever down on the drill. Easy as easy can be, start drill , press down, nice and slow, one two three done, and the next one. I’ve got the roof panel off of Madonna apart from the screen section in about two and a half hours and drilled then used an old scraper to hammer into separate it from the cant rails and worked a treat, where the roof meets the screen it’s brazed. Well that worked fab, now to finish getting the roof off of my van and let’s have a look.</p><p></p><p> Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,it was all going to well<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ozziedog, post: 633419, member: 13810"] So,,, plan C got hatched and it involved my new van ‘Madonna’ who is now ‘My Donor’ and th3 new plan involves popping the roof off and whizzing it over on to my van. My van is starting to look proper Frank En Stein with the amount of work gone into the roof so far and this welder is starting to get right on my tits with it’s extremely bad manners stop starting and fuse blowing. So I’m off down to machine mart to get somE bits and bobs, five thousand cutting discs in four inch a couple of hundred in five inch and I’ve already got a zillion in nine inch. Im getting some spot weld drills and I’m getting a new mig while I’m there. I’ve gone for the biggest mig you can get before you get to the euro torch set ups and the spot weld bits are like tiny spring loaded hole saws so I get a couple of them maybe four. Get back to the van and let’s get started. There are precisely several zillion spotwelds holding on the roof panel and these new spot weld bits are somewhere between not very good and useless after drilling out a couple. Yes I’m going very very slow with lots of pressure and I’m balanced on a stack of beer crates, this is gonna take forever and three weeks. As I’m gonna junk this roof panel, I’ve now decided to forget these useless spotweld drill bits and use a regular eighth pilot bit and a three eighth big bit. This is working much better but in two days over the weekend I’ve managed maybe six foot along one side and several zillion to go, then there’s getting the roof panel off of Madonna in one piece and transferring it from out in the lane to in the garage and onto my van Sherbie. This is gonna take some thinking about. In the week, I’ve gone down to get some more gas from B.O.C. as I’m down to next to nothing. Every time you go in B.O.C. It takes an age to get to the front of the queue then everything seems like a massive effort for them to actually do anything, moreso if they think you’re a D.I.Y.er . So I’m lurking about and I’m almost at the front of the queue and I strike up a conversation with some one getting some stock for a local fabrication shop and in next to no time we’re chatting about old Volkswagens and his brother has one etc etc. There’s a display stand that were queued by for DeWalt drill bits and I’m chatting about how crap some spotweld bits are. As he finishes getting served, he grabs a couple of these DeWalt Extreme drill bits and shouts to the guy serving him to put them on his account too. He tells me to get some and I won’t be sorry, then he grabs two more and shouts through to put them on his account as well and he shoves them in my jacket top pocket, we both laugh and he goes to walk off, I says thank you and shook his hand and I’ve never seen him again from that day to this, get my gas and chuck it in the car. Game changer, on the weekend , I’m still aching from drilling and drilling and drilling from the weekend before but I’ve got a different approach now, these drill bits are a gold colour and look very similar to a masonry bit with a little stub of a bit for a pilot and they are ace . I’m now on a small scaffolding of trestles and working with these new bits and I’ve made a noose and lever. ThE noose is about a foot long and just goes over the cant rail into which I’ve put the end of my four foot lever bit of two by two, start the drill off with a spring loaded centre punch pop the drill into the punched but in the spotweld then pull the lever down on the drill. Easy as easy can be, start drill , press down, nice and slow, one two three done, and the next one. I’ve got the roof panel off of Madonna apart from the screen section in about two and a half hours and drilled then used an old scraper to hammer into separate it from the cant rails and worked a treat, where the roof meets the screen it’s brazed. Well that worked fab, now to finish getting the roof off of my van and let’s have a look. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,it was all going to well:) [/QUOTE]
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